§ Sir David Priceasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list in the Official Report the amount of annual payments which have been made to the United Kingdom out of the social fund of the European Community for each of the last five years, expressed both in current and in real terms.
§ Mr. GummerThe following table shows the payments made to the United Kingdom from the European social fund in cash terms for 1982–83 and the preceding four years, and also the payments adjusted by applying the gross domestic product deflator at market prices, with 1982–83 as the base year:
198W
Cash Adjusted £ million £ million 1978–79 59 36 1979–80 115 83 1980–81 105 90 1981–82 112 105 1982–83 162 162
§ Sir David Priceasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give a breakdown by reference to the individual recipient organisations of the annual payments which the United Kingdom has received from the social fund of the European Community for the last convenient year.
§ Mr. GummerThe following table shows the breakdown of payments received from the European social fund in the financial year 1982–83:
£ million Manpower Services Commission 104 Department of Employment 12 Other Public Sector organisations 4 Private firms and training boards* 6 Charitable organisations 1 Northern Ireland—Public Sector 29 Northern Ireland—Private Sector 6 162 * Excluding Northern Ireland. I regret that details of payments made to individual bodies could be identified only at disproportionate cost.